What happens to streaming music services when they have no music left to stream? That seemingly zen question may be answered if more record labels follow the lead of the more than 200 labels that have withdrawn their catalogs …

Though the Apple Store memorials have since given way to long lines for the iPhone 4S, it’s still difficult to imagine the technology company without Steve Jobs at its helm. And while much has been written about the gadgets that defined perhaps Jobs’ most productive decade, it’s tough to isolate one device for its impact above …

I first learned about Napster in my freshman geometry class from a varsity football guy who warmed the bench. Up to that point, I was still lurking in AOL chatrooms to download tracks from moderators and their Comic Sans bots—which, if you think about it—was a really weird and impractical way to get free mp3s.

After battling with the music industry in the US court system for almost half a decade, a federal court in New York finally shut down peer-to-peer file sharing website Limewire with a permanent injunction, saying the program caused a “massive scale of infringement.”